The UNESCO World Heritage Committee has followed advice from IUCN, as the official advisor on nature, to inscribe seven new ...

Tanzania has taken another important step towards strengthening inclusive and rights-based governance of its community protected and conserved areas following the conclusion of a three-day national ...

How can women's leadership, the recognition of cultural diversity, and cooperation between territories contribute to more inclusive and sustainable governance of shared waters at the local level? That ...

IUCN Regional Director for Asia and Hub Director for Oceania Dindo Campilan delivered IUCN's statement to the 48th session of the World Heritage Committee in Busan, Republic of Korea on 21 July 2026.

Gland, Switzerland / Luxembourg (IUCN) – The Government of Luxembourg and the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) have launched the third phase of the Blue Natural Capital Financing ...

New Haven, Connecticut, United States, 22 July 2026. Yale University, the International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN), and representatives of Indigenous Peoples' organizations from Latin ...

Unguja, Zanzibar, 16 July 2026 – Stakeholders from government, coastal communities, civil society, academia, the private sector and development partners have launched the Northeast Unguja Seascape ...

For more than 20 years, Kent led the Global Marine Species Assessment with his team at Old Dominion University, coordinating hundreds of experts worldwide to assess almost 20,000 marine fishes, corals ...

West Africa is at a pivotal moment in its hydro-political history. The institutional achievements of previous decades provide a solid foundation, but they must be consolidated and adapted to an ...

A new study published in Nature has found that the international trade in reptile skins for leather is, for most traded species, sustainable and not a primary driver of extinction risk. The research, ...

The Environmental Impact Classification for Alien Taxa (EICAT) is the IUCN global standard for measuring the severity of environmental impacts caused by animals, fungi and plants living outside their ...

As countries work to accelerate implementation of the Rio Conventions and achieve the Sustainable Development Goals, Nature-based Solutions (NbS) are emerging as one of the most effective approaches ...